INTRODUCTION TO INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY
A subspecialty in cardiology, interventional cardiology is a huge branch of internal medicine. Using catheter-based techniques for diagnosis, several kinds of heart defects and diseases are treated. An interventional cardiologist is specialized in using imaging techniques and diagnostic tools to find out if anything is wrong in the blood pressure and blood flow in the major arteries and the heart.
CERTAIN SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS
- Chest pain gradually moves to your shoulders, arms, and neck.
- Racing of your heart
- Passing out
- Feeling Dizzy
- Shortness of breath
- Changes in your EKG showing you have a coronary artery blockage
- Heart diseases like unstable angina, heart valve disease, or heart attack
- Requires heart valve repair or angioplasty
DISEASES TREATED BY INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY
- Angina: It is a type of chest pain that is basically caused due to the narrowing of arteries.
- Myocardial Infarction: This condition occurs when a part of a person’s heart muscle becomes deprived of oxygen-rich blood.
- Cardiomyopathy: Another type of heart condition where the heart muscles weaken or enlarge.
- Heart Defect: Congenital heart defects are mostly present since birth in someone that includes an atrial septal defect.
- Arrhythmia: A type of heart condition where one might have an irregular heartbeat. It might either be too slow, too fast, or quite irregular.
- Heart Failure: A common condition that happens when someone’s heart becomes too weak to pump blood everywhere in the body.
TREATMENTS IN INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY
- One of the most common procedure, also known as balloon angioplasty is done where a balloon is used to keep the blocked artery open and then a stent is installed.
- To treat obstructive cardiomyopathy, alcohol septal ablation is performed.
- To check heart function and find blocked arteries, cardiac catheterization with coronary angiography is performed.
- Mitral and aortic valvuloplasty and transcatheter aortic valve implantation is done for heart valve repair and heart valve replacement
- Pacemaker and defibrillator insertion to treat abnormal heart rhythms
SOME FAQS ABOUT INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY
When all other treatments like medicines, lifestyle changes, medical procedures, stop working, only then heart surgery can become an option.
The minimally invasive procedures are less painful, less risky, and easy to heal from. People of age 70, 80 can easily survive these procedures.
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